Muslim- and American-killing Trump has finished 2017 on a high having secured passage through Congress of his deadly Tax-Cut Bill that will shift $1.5 trillion from health, education and welfare to tax relief that will overwhelmingly benefit corporations and the rich. However the Tax-Cut Bill also includes repeal of the ObamaCare individual mandate, a measure that will remove 13 million Americans from health insurance by 2027 and kill 12,300 Americans through loss of health cover over 2 Trump terms.

The Republican Tax-cut Bill has passed both chambers of Congress and will eventually be signed into law by Trump [1-4]. According to the ABC, the Tax-Cut Bill package will cost $1.5 trillion and involve a massive wealth transfer: “The bill would slash the corporate income tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent. The top tax rate for individuals would be lowered from 39.6 per cent to 37 per cent. The legislation repeals an important part of the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare — the requirement that all Americans carry health insurance or face a penalty — as the GOP looks to unravel the law it failed to repeal and replace this past summer. It also allows oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” [1].

The ABC further reports that by 2025 most of the benefit will go to One Percenters: “The bill makes the corporate tax cut from 35 per cent to 21 per cent permanent while the more limited tax cuts for the middle class expire in 2025. At that point the independent Tax Policy Centre estimates that more than 80 per cent of the tax money will go to the top 1 per cent” [2].

While endlessly mendacious, truth-challenged Trump has falsely declared that “Obamacare has been repealed in this bill”, the Tax-Cut Bill only repeals that part of Obamacare called the “individual mandate” [3]. Sy Mukherjee has provided the following explanation in “Fortune”: “The GOP’s new tax bill, which passed Congress on Wednesday afternoon after one last vote in the House of Representatives and will be signed by President Donald Trump, is also a health care bill. The tax bill does at least as much (if not more) to upend Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, than even all of the Trump administration’s thousand cuts to the health law over the past year by repealing the individual mandate.… The individual mandate… requires most Americans (other than those who qualify for a hardship exemption) to carry a minimum level of health coverage… Ultimately, repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate would cause 13 million fewer Americans to be insured in 2027 compared with current law, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Healthier and wealthier people may choose to forgo coverage, and even poorer, medically needy people may not sign up for insurance because they don’t know which options are available and there may not be the same sense of urgency to enroll without the mandate. The CBO also predicts that premiums in the markets would spike 10% without Obamacare’s individual mandate as the exchanges are left with a sicker consumer pool” [4].

The $1.5 trillion wealth transfer to the rich from health, education and welfare will certainly impact this continuing American Holocaust involving 1.7 million annual American preventable deaths, but the precise extent of this impact is hard to assess. However, as explained below, a precise estimate can be made of the impact of the Tax-Cut Bill on category (6), specifically 45,000 annual American deaths due to lack of medical insurance (health cover). This precise estimate is made possible because the Republican Tax-Cut Bill also included abolition of the ObamaCare’s “individual mandate”, a measure that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated would mean 13 million fewer Americans with health cover by 2027 [1-4, 9].

Earlier in 2017 Trump had attempted to repeal ObamaCare but his attempt was foiled by Congressional representatives responding to widespread outrage over the deadly consequences of such a move. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had estimated that the ObamaCare-replacing, Trump Republican American Health Care Act would be deadly by meaning 14 million more uninsured Americans in 2018 and 24 million by 2026. The prestigious Harvard Medical School had estimated that lack of health insurance kills about 45,000 Americans each year [10] and Trump’s removal of millions of Americans from Health Cover was precisely estimated to kill 43,000 Americans over 2 Trump terms versus an expected 30 jihadi terrorism deaths over the same period [7].

Now that the Republican Tax-cut Bill has been passed, including repeal of the ObamaCare “individual mandate” provision, one can precisely estimate 12,300 American deaths from lack of health insurance over 2 Trump terms, as set out below.

In 2011 58% of 312 million Americans (i.e. 181 million Americans) had health cover i.e. 312 million – 181 million = 131 million didn’t have Health Cover [11].

A 2009 analysis from the Harvard Medical School estimated that 45,000 Americans die from lack of health insurance each year [10].

With this information we can roughly estimate that 131 million Americans without health insurance corresponds to 45,000 American deaths each year from this deficiency or 45,000/ 131 million = 343.5 American deaths annually for each 1 million Americans without health insurance. We can use this relationship to estimate the expected American deaths due to the Republican Tax-Cut Bill’s repeal of the ObamaCare “individual mandate” provision and removal of millions of Americans from life-saving Health Cover [4, 9].

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that 13 million more Americans would be uninsured by 2027 under the Republican Tax-Cut Bill [4, 9].

Assuming that future compensatory Health Care amendments are ineffective [4, 9], that there are no future mitigating legislative changes, and that there is a subsequent linear increase in Americans removed from health cover from 0 in 2017 to 13 million in 2027 [4, 9] , we can graphically estimate the following cumulative numbers of Americans removed from health cover in the period 2018-2026: 1.23 million (2018), 2.57 million (2019), 3.83 million (2020), 5.14 million (2021), 6.38 million (2022), 7.68 million (2023), 8.97 million (2024), 10.25 million (2025), and 11.55 million (2026), 13 million (2027).

This data means that if Donald Trump has a single 4-year term (2017-2020), his Tax Act that has now been passed by Congress will kill 2,622 Americans, and if Trump has 2-terms (2017-2024) the health insurance changes due to his Tax-Cut Bill policies will kill 12,299 Americans i.e. this Trump and Republican measure will kill about 12,300 Americans over 2 Trump terms.

America is ruled by a Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted, neoliberal, and corporatist One Percenter Establishment. Trump America represents the apogee (highest point) of the currently dominant, anti-social, ecologically disastrous and indeed terracidal neoliberalism that seeks to maximize the freedom of the smart and advantaged to exploit human and natural resources for private profit with an asserted “trickle down” to the less advantaged. The alternative system that must be adopted if we are to save Humanity and the Biosphere is social humanism (socialism, democratic socialism, eco-socialism, the welfare state) that involves sustainably maximizing dignity, opportunity and happiness for everybody through evolving intra-national and international social contracts [12-16].

French economist Thomas Piketty in “Capitalism in the Twenty First Century” argues that huge wealth inequity (the One Percenters now have 50% of the wealth) is bad for the economy (the numerous poor cannot buy the goods and services they produce) and bad for democracy (Big Money buys votes by determining effective free speech and hence public perception of reality). Piketty suggests a rigorous international exposure of wealth accumulation and an annual wealth tax (as exampled in France or for 1,400 years as a 2.5% annual wealth tax or zakkat in the Muslim world) [17-20]. 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year [21] and one can estimate that a 4% annual wealth tax would lift all countries to a $7,000 per capita GDP that with good governance in China and Cuba means that avoidable mortality is zero in these countries i.e. it is possible to stop this Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust [19]. Of course such humanitarian action is anathema to neoliberalism and its most primitive and barbaric exponent, Donald Trump.

The World is acutely and existentially threatened by (a) nuclear weapons, (b) poverty, and (c) man-made climate change – (a) a nuclear exchange and subsequent Nuclear Winter would wipe out most of Humanity and the Biosphere (speciescide, ecocide, omnicide and terracide) [22], (b) poverty already kills 17 million people annually on Spaceship Earth with neoliberal One Percenters in charge of the fight deck (with this set to increase as agronomical resources are further depleted) [21], and (c) 7 million people already die annually from air pollution [23], a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise is now unavoidable [24, 25], and unaddressed man-made climate change is predicted to kill as many as 10 billion people this century in a worsening climate genocide [26]. Barbarian buffoon Trump (a) has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, (b) heads deadly global neoliberalism that kills 17 million people annually, and (c) is a climate change denier and terracidal environmental vandal.

While 17 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation in the Developing World (minus China) , in rich societies of the “5-eyes” Anglosphere (the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand), of Western Europe, and of prosperous Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) annual avoidable death on the international comparative scale is essentially zero, as it is in the poor (per capita) but socially progressive countries China and Cuba [21]. Nevertheless, resolutely ignored by terror hysterical Mainstream journalist , politician and academic presstitutes in the Anglosphere are huge, often self-inflicted, preventable deaths from social causes (e.g. smoking, drinking, air pollution, suicide etc) that each year total 1.7 million (in the US), 150,000 (UK), 100,000 (Canada), 85,000 (Australia) and 17,000 (New Zealand) [5-8, 27-29]. In stark contrast, only 3 Australians have ever been killed by jihadi terrorists in Australia, and only 4 Americans have died thus each year in America since 9-11 [5-8, 27, 28, 30].

Whereas 32 million Muslims have been killed by violence, 5 million, or by imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance in the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity [31-33], American preventable deaths since 9-11 total 1.7 million per year x 16 years = 27 million preventable, “lifestyle” deaths. In an enormous fiscal perversion that is overwhelmingly ignored by One Percenter-controlled Mainstream media, America has committed $6 trillion to killing 32 million Muslims abroad in the War on Terror instead of keeping 27 million Americans alive at home. Barbarian Trump’s mass murder of 12,300 Americans via the Republican Tax-Cut Bill and the concomitant deadly diversion of $1.5 trillion to the rich from health, education and welfare simply represents the latest atrocity in that appalling, neoliberal fiscal perversion.

What can decent people do? Decent people must inform everyone they can and especially the long-suffering American people who are grossly deceived by the endless mendacity and fake news through lying by omission of the One Percenter-controlled Mainstream media [34, 35]. Wake up America!

[21]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, including an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ .

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